Transcript Chancellor’s Office Hottest Topics

Chancellor’s Office Hottest Topics:
A Story About Trains
STEPHANIE LOW
DEAN, CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES
CHANCELLOR’S OFFICE
3/25/2011
This Train has Left the Station
 Course Scheduling Issues
 Mission appropriateness
 Focus Transfer, Career Technical, and Basic Skills
 Apportionment Issues
 Noncredit Physical Education and Dance
 Noncredit title 5 regulations
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Require CCCCO approval for all noncredit courses
Continue to require approval for Career Development/College
Preparation (SB361) certificates and Adult High School Diploma
programs
Delegate authority to districts to locally approve all other
noncredit certificates except apprenticeships
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She’ll be Coming Around the Mountain
 Curriculum Inventory implementation
 2011-12 Review of credit and noncredit programs
 Credit certificates less than 18 semester units
 Need data on prerequisites and content review
 Course Data Elements (June 2011)
 Repeatability
 C-ID Descriptors
 Prerequisites Data Reporting (2011-12)
 Title IV Review
 USDOE and the Last Day of Attendance in Distance Education
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She’ll be Coming Around the Mountain
 Course repetition and withdrawal
 Proposed limit to number of enrollments
allowed for apportionment
 Audit in 2011-2012
 TBA Hours attendance accounting
 Apportionment for noncredit PE and dance
 Conversion of credit courses to fee-based offerings
 Community services offerings
 Contract education
 AB 515 (Brownley) CCC extension programs
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She’ll be Coming Around the Mountain
 Program and Course Approval Handbook
 4th Edition to include Curriculum Inventory
 Module 3 on noncredit curriculum development
 New and discontinued forms
Course modifications (CCC-480/580)
 Noncredit program modifications
 Apprenticeships (credit or noncredit)
 CCC-520 will discontinue July 1, 2011
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 Contracts with CTE Providers
 Title 5, chapter 6, subchapter 7, commencing with 55600
refers to contracts with private postsecondary schools
3/25/2011
Scheduled Stop
 Prerequisites and corequisites based
on Content Review
 Academic Senate training on methods
 The District Plan – title 5 section 55003(c)
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Method to identify courses to which prerequisites in basic
skills will improve student success
How will you assure that courses will be “reasonably” available
Sections of the prerequisite courses
 Other courses that do not require prerequisites or corequisites
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How will curriculum committee be trained?
How will you monitor the impact of the new prerequisites on
student progress toward academic goals?
3/25/2011
All Aboard!
 SB 1440 Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act
 Ed Code §66746
 Discipline faculty from CCC and CSU systems developing
Transfer Model Curriculum (TMC)
 Community colleges must offer (and CSU must accept students
who complete) an associate degree that includes:
18+ semester units / 27 + quarter units in a major or area of
emphasis
 Completion of the CSU GE or IGETC pattern
 60 transferable semester (90 quarter) units
 GPA of 2.0
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No additional graduation requirements
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Pathway to Transfer
Transfer
Model
Curriculum
(TMC)
Local
curriculum
process
CCCCO
approval
Similar
program or
major at
CSU
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Similar program or major
CCCCO
approves/assigns
program control
number
CCC control
number &
requirements
sent to CSU
Student applies to
CSU with CCC
control number
CSU degree
program code
identified
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Chancellor’s Office Approval Process
 Degrees must be approved as AA-T or AS-T
 AS-T for STEM and CTE disciplines
 AA-T for others
 Forms have been modified to add these degree types
 CCC-501 New Credit Program proposals
 CCC-510 Substantial Modification to Approved
Credit Program
 Colleges that align the AA-T or AS-T to an approved
TMC will have fewer requirements for the narrative
that is attached to the degree proposal in the
Curriculum Inventory
3/25/2011
AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC
Criteria A. Appropriateness to Mission (all
required)
1. Statement of Program Goals and Objectives
2. Catalog Description
3. Program Requirements
4. Background and Rationale
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AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC
Criteria B. Need
6. Place of Program in Curriculum/Similar
Programs
 Required for CTE only
 Attachment: Local Labor / Job Market Data
 Regional consortium review is not required
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AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC
Required only for new CTE discipline at your
college:
8. Labor Market Information & Analysis
9. Employer Survey
10. Explanation of Employer Relationship
11. List of Members of Advisory Committee
12. Recommendations of Advisory Committee
 Attachment: Employer Survey
 Attachment: Minutes of Key Meetings
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AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC
Criteria C. Curriculum Standards
 The only required documentation for transfer
applicability is the completed TMC template listing
the college’s existing courses that align with the C-ID
designated courses.
 Course outlines of record for major courses should
be attached to the appropriate courses in the
Curriculum Inventory.
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AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC
Criteria D-Adequate Resources:
 Include a general statement in regard to facilities,
additional faculty, and new equipment or library
resources.
Criteria E-Compliance:
 Include a general statement in regard to enrollment
restrictions and licensing or accreditation standards.
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(CCC-510)AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC
CCC-510 if college has approved certificate or degree
in same 4-digit T.O.P. code
4. Discussion of background and rationale is not
optional.
6. Place of proposed change in the curriculum –
relation to existing program and options; relation
to other programs at your college.
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(CCC-510) AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC
 Required for CTE only
 Attachment: Local Labor / Job Market Data
 Regional consortium review is not required
Criteria C. Curriculum Standards
 The only required documentation for transfer
applicability is the completed TMC template listing
the college’s existing courses that align with the C-ID
designated courses.
 Course outlines of record for major courses should
be attached to the appropriate courses in the
Curriculum Inventory.
3/25/2011
Documentation for TMC Template
 TMC templates require this documentation in order
of preference when specifying required courses at
your college.
1. Assigned C-ID designation or
2. Assigned TCSU number or
3. Appropriate report from ASSIST showing the
required transferability status (e.g., CSU
transferable, general education, or major
preparation at CSU)
3/25/2011
Documentation for TMC Template
 Training Webinar
 Monday, March 28, 2011
 1:00 – 3:00 pm
 Agenda
 Review and demonstrate the TMC Template for Mathematics
 Share first approved AA-T in Communication Studies!
TMC template
 Documentation for courses without C-ID or TCSU descriptor
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AA-T or AS-T Not Aligned with TMC
 Submit as new (CCC-501) or substantially modified
(CCC-510) degree with transfer status
 All narrative items required for proposal of a new
associate degree with transfer status except
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Articulation with multiple institutions will not be required
when CSU Degree Program Code exists
3/25/2011
AA-T or AS-T Not Aligned with TMC
 These proposals require documentation that all
required courses are applicable to the major at the
local CSU campus. Articulation with multiple
baccalaureate institutions is not required.
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AA-T or AS-T Not Aligned with TMC
 The college must provide strong evidence that
 If a TMC exists, explain why it is not the best preparation for
students who transfer to the CSU campus; or
 if no TMC exists, the local degree is best preparation for
students who transfer to a specific major at CSU campuses
offering that major; and
 the community college discipline faculty have consulted with
CSU discipline faculty to confirm that the lower-division
coursework provides preparation for the CSU major.
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AA-T or AS-T Not Aligned with TMC
 Acceptable documentation in order of preference:
Assigned C-ID designation or
2. Assigned TCSU number or
3. Appropriate report from ASSIST showing the required
transferability status (e.g., CSU transferable, general
education, or major preparation at CSU)
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AA-T or AS-T Not Aligned with TMC
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In addition, the proposal must include a letter
from CSU discipline chair or administrator that
confirms collaboration with CSU faculty and
assures that:
Locally-designated courses will provide lowerdivision major preparation and
Students will not be required to repeat a course
that is similar to a specific course that counted
toward the associate degree for transfer.
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Stop at the Crossing!
(before you call the Chancellor’s Office)
 http://www.cccco.edu/1440
 Instructions for AA-T and AS-T Degree
(link on right side of page)
Instructions
 TMC templates (Word forms)
 Revised CCC-501/CCC-510 forms
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 http://www.asccc.org/1440
 http://curriculum.cccco.edu/
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